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Saturday, 8 December 2012

Class of 2013, Breaking Dawn, Fantasia & an awesome gift!

Hi
everyone. Looks like Stalker_Magnet and I decided to post almost on the same
day! So if you want to see awesome nail art, scroll down, like now :-D!

In this post I’ll show you everything I bought
since my previous post. I’ll start with the Class of 2013 LE of Essence from
oktober. In Belgium (where the 3 of us live) they only had the Wild Craft LE,
while in The Nederlands, they had Class of 2013. So one Friday, we decided to
get in the car after school, cross the border and drive to the nearest Dutch town
to purchase all that we wanted but couldn’t find in Belgium.

01
Blues of Being Cool by Essence
01 College Hero (top coat) by Essence
02 School’s out Forever by Essence

School’s
out Forever is a nice grey and needs only 1 (thick) coat of polish to be opaque. And looks
fabulous with the College Hero top coat, especially if you apply 2 coats of
this glittery polish. The top coat consist of different sizes of silver
coloured circular glitter flakes. I’ll think
I’ll combine these 2 to wear on my birthday.
Blues of Being Cool needs at least 2 coats to be opaque, and has a fresh, yet
not too bright, blue colour.

These polishes can be easily removed. You can just pull the polish off, sometimes
even in one go. I managed to pull it off of almost all of my fingers in one go,
and decided to keep the pieces, photograph them and put them on the blog. But
before I could photograph them, my mother found them on my desk and thought it
was waste to throw in the garbage :-( .

The
next polishes are from the Breaking Dawn part 2 LE by Essence.

01
Jacob’s Protection by Essence
02 Alice Had a Vision – Again by Essence
03 A Piece of Forever by Essence
04 Edward’s Love by Essence

I had been
looking for these for about 3 weeks, but every shop I entered, they were sold
out. Until one evening after school, Ellenora suggested we’d look again in the
shop not so far from school, and guess
what, they had restocked. Luckily we arrived when we did, because I was able to
buy the last bottles of some of these colours.

I’ll start
with Jacob’s Protection, Alice Had a Vision and Edward’s Love. These 3 polishes
need 2 to 3 coats to be opaque and I find them quite difficult to apply. They
are a bit gel like, and when applying the first coat, some parts of my nails
just won’t get covered and I get some sort of stripe like effect.. I don’t know
whether these bottles have been opened too much in the shop or if they are just
that gel like substance, but I have read reviews of people who didn’t have the
problems I have when applying these polishes.
The difference in colour is very subtle. Jacob’s Protection is dark blue with
blue and green glitter, Alice Had a Vision – Again is purple with purple, blue
and green glitter and Edward’s Love is black with grey/green glitter. The 3 of them look very nice and have subtle differences.
When you’re wearing these colours, at first sight it’s difficult to tell which
one’s which, but when looking closer you can see the beautiful detail that
these polishes have because of the glitter.

A Piece of Forever is a magnificent gold. The
first gold like nail polish I have in my possession. It applies very easily and is reasonably opaque
after 1 coat. It does tend to have stripes, but I’m not bothered by that. This
polish looks good on its own, but looks
all the more dazzling when used as detail for nail art.

The next
polish is from the recent Fantasia LE of Essence.

I actually promised my mother not to buy any
more nail polishes until New Year. But I just couldn’t resist this purple one.
On the site of Essence, these limited edition polishes didn’t look promising,
but when seeing these in the store they looked beautiful.

01
Elves Like Lilac by Essence

Considering
purple is my favourite colour, I just had to buy this one. It’s a stunning bright
dark purple with a blue shine (Yes, bright and dark go together ;-) ). The only
downside of this polish is that the blue shine you see when looking at the
bottle, isn’t that visible when on your nails. When applied to your nails, the
blue shine is only visible when looking at your nails closely. I believe it
would make this polish even more interesting when this shine would be more
visible.

Because this is the polish I’m wearing today, I
took a photo of my nails too:

And
last but not least, I would like to thank Ellenora for giving me Have an Ice
Day of The Million Styles collection of Catrice. It’s the most beautiful top
coat I have ever seen. It has these small glitter flakes that reflect easily
and have different colours. And because the 3 of us are making a project about
nail polish in our postproduction class, the teachers didn’t say anything when
I simply started applying this top coat while in class. I believe this top coat
can make every polish absolutely stunning, and I will definitely wear this
topcoat during the holiday season. And It’s a shame you can’t really see the fabulous
effect of this polish in the picture below :-(.

C08
Have an Ice Day, Million Styles Effect Top Coat by Catrice

So Ellenora, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!

All I have left to say is have a nice weekend, enjoy the holidays that are coming and I hope you can keep warm this winter (We had the first snow this week).

2 comments:

I love your christmas set-up! It looks awesome!The Fantasia collection is so pretty! I'm just in love with all the polishes.They have the Million Styles collection in all the stores again, btw. So if you want an extra... ;)

I'm in love with the christmas step-up too! I simply love it! No probs on the ice day polish. It is my fave so I stocked up majorly and am very excited to share it with you! I'm thrilled you love it so much.